‘Real’ information is not flat – and why it matters

Abstract

We consider Luciano Floridi's proposal for a structural realism based on an Informational Structural Realism which, as he describes in his book (p. 339): ‘As a form of realism … is committed to the existence of a mind-independent reality addressed by, and constraining knowledge’. In doing this, we inform and reform aspects of the argument within a mathematical and, specifically, computability theoretic context.

Keywords::

• information
• computability
• higher order computation
• definability
• ontology
• epistemology
• incomputability